Bournemouth’s Tourism

1. Introduction

The purpose of this report is to provide the reader with an in-depth analysis of the economic environment in which Bournemouth’s tourism industry take place.

Furthermore, the negative and positive impacts of tourism in Bournemouth will be examined, as well as, recommendations will be given on how to develop effectively further tourism activities in the resort.

It is very important to highlight that any tourism or economical statistics used in this report are not available online and were kindly provided by John Breakstone from the Market Research Group at Bournemouth University.

In addition to that, the data obtained is from 2004 and does not only refer to Bournemouth on its own, but will cover all visitors staying in resorts within the Dorset county, such as Poole, Christchurch, Weymouth, Portland and of course, Bournemouth.

2. Background information

Along with the industrial revolution and the development of transports, people’s quality of life improved, leading to more disposable time.

Therefore, resorts became very popular holiday destinations, especially into the 20th century.

Bournemouth, by offering an improved and modern tourism product, is a strong sea-side

resort and with great potential for future developments.

Bournemouth is one of the most popular tourist resorts on the south coast of England, and it is home to over 151,000 people.

In the 18th century, as an isolated, pine city, it attracted the wealthiest of societies from